Section 9Part 2 — Development Plans
Preparation of development plans
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A development plan includes such maps and descriptive matter in the form of a planning statement as may be necessary to illustrate its proposals with such degree of particularity as may be appropriate to different parts of the Islands; and a development plan, may in particular —
define the sites of proposed roads, public and other buildings and works, airfields, parks, pleasure grounds, nature reserves and other open spaces;
allocate areas of land for use for agricultural, residential, industrial or other purposes of any use or class specified in the plan; and
designate, as public open space —
land allocated by the plan for purposes of any of the functions of the Government or a statutory undertaker or a highway authority; and
other land that, in the opinion of the Government, ought to be subject to acquisition by the Government for the purpose of securing its use in the manner proposed by the plan,
and the Government may acquire such public open space as it deems necessary.
A development plan shall not designate any land as land subject to acquisition by the Government if it appears to it that the acquisition is not likely to take place within five years from the date on which the plan is approved.
Where any land is designated by a development plan, or amendment of a development plan, as subject to acquisition by the Government, it shall be acquired within one year of the date on which the plan, or the amendment, came into operation; and, if the land is not acquired within that year, any owner of an interest in the land to be acquired may serve on the Government a notice to acquire the land within six months after the service of the notice, or such longer period as may be agreed between the owner and the Government; and, if at the end of that period the land has not been acquired, the land shall be deemed to be designated as provided in the development plan in effect at the time as approved by the Cayman Islands Parliament.
Without prejudice to subsection (1), a development plan may make provision for any of the matters set out in Schedule 2.
Any other provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the paper entitled the Planning Statement for the Cayman Islands, 1977 together with its appendices and accompanying map approved by a resolution of the Cayman Islands Parliament on the 28th day of July, 1977 is deemed to be the first development plan of the Islands and to have been prepared and approved in accordance and after full and proper compliance with this Act.